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srafrfns EDWARD FRANCIS IVIILES, OF LEWISTON, MAINE.

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FILING CABINET.

Application filed July 15, 1921, Serial No. 484,887. Renewed January 29, 1924.

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD Francis Minne, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lewiston, in the county of Androscoggin and State of Maine, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Filing Cabinets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a ling cabinet so arranged that at the end of the days work the entire body of files may be quickly and easily removed and put in a place of safety.

My cabinet is particularly adapted for railroad freight offices Where railroad way bills or other similar papers coming in during the day may be quickly filed under suitable headings and when the day is over the whole contents of the casing much contracted. and diminished in size can be placed away in a suitable fire proof safe or vault.

In order to accomplish this purpose, my invention consists essentially of a suitable cabinet formed into vertical or openfaced chambers or recesses by upright partitions.

A plurality of filing shelves are held in each chamber one above the other by means of flexible connections. f

rIhe upper shelf from which the filing shelves are suspended is formed to slide into suitable grooves extending from front to rear and preferably suitable handles are attached to the upper and lower shelves so that the entire body of shelves and their contents may be collapsed or folded by raising the bottom shelf and sliding the whole body of shelves and files out of the casing so that they may be put in a place of safety.

I have illustrated the invention by means of the accompanying drawing in which:

Fig. 1 as a front elevation showing the entire cabinet with the tiling shelves in one chamber ready to be slipped out and removed and the tiling shelves in the other chamber being extended as while in ordinary use.

F ig. 2 is a side elevation and,

Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line 1-1 of Fig. 1 showing the cabinet with the top removed.

by the back piece 9. The filing shelves 10 are disposed vertically one above the other in each of the chambers 7 and 8, being connected together by a strip of flexible material 11 perferably of woven fabric, as cotton cloth, secured at the ends of the filing shelves.

The shelves in each chamber are suspended by means of the strips 11 from a suspending shelf 12,this shelf being adapted i to slide in horizontal grooves in the upper` end of the upright chamber, one in each of the chambers and 8.

K The lower or guide shelf 13 of the series is formed similar to the shelf 12 and each is provided with a suitable handle 14 whereby the lower shelf may be raised to compact the several filing shelves and their contents against the lower side of the suspending shelf 12.

When the days work is completed, the lower' shelf 13 is lifted and the whole contents of the chamber, including the upper shelf 12 are slipped forward and out of the case, being then in a position to be handled and placed away in the safe or vault.

Along the edge of each side piece and opposite the spaces between the shelves are placed the letters of the alphabet by which the way bills or other papers may be arranged alphabetically.

A filing case such as I have described is well adapted to be used in railroad freight oilices and other similar places and furnishes a means by which the current days work may be collected and placed in safety with the expenditure of but` little time and trouble.

I claim:

A filing cabinet including a casing open at the front and having a plurality of compartments, and provided at the top of each said of the compartments with opposite borizonta-l supporting ways, a supporting slide and a. set of collapsible shelves for each of the compartinentssupported by said slide, shelves being flexibly connected at theii` side edges and collapsible upwardly from the bottom of the eab-inet towards the said slide in removing the set of shelves from the compartment7 the said slide being` extended laterally beyond the side edges ol" 10 the shelves and having its extended side edges supported by, and slidable inwardlyy and outwardly in the said ways, said set of shelves being suspended in its expanded condition from the said slide.

EDWARD FRANCIS MILES 

